Not2BSubjugated
Callous Individualist
That's your argument? It's cool that the law made it illegal for Home Depot could offer a cheaper health care coverage to part time employees that was actually economical in terms of the value those employees bring to the table vs the cost of the coverage offered because coverage at that level isn't good enough?
It's better than nothing, though, I would assume. Wouldn't you?
Nah, maybe one of the following is a better solution:
1. Force Home Depot to offer even part time employees whatever it is that you consider "REAL health care fer chrissake". As a side note, I'm not sure why all the references to health care. I thought we were talking about insurance? That's apparently two concepts that Obamacare advocates have trouble separating. Back to the main point: This would be awesome in a perfect world of lollipop rainbows and candy rivers, just make Home Depot give better coverage to EVERYBODY! YAY! Everybody healthy now! Except that in reality, this costs money. The economic minds running that ship are in it to make a profit (those evil guys going into business to benefit themselves!). If and when they decided that offering that sort of coverage to part time employees meant having to pay out way more money than what the output of those employees was worth, bye bye lots and lots of employees. Luckily, Obamacare doesn't require that.
2. The other choice is what Obamacare actually does. It gives them the choice between offering that better coverage or just not giving anyone under 30 hours a week any coverage at all. Essentially, they're given the option of fucking up their bottom line or pulling the low level coverage that the labor of their part-timers is feasibly worth. Just make sure your part timers aren't going over that magic number of hours and you can avoid a lot of hassle. Then in stead of part timers at Home Depot having low level insurance that's paid for between them and their employer, (and I might mention that part time jobs clerking and stocking in a hardware store are generally jobs held by the younger members of our workforce, who generally need less health coverage than the average) we get all these part time employees sucking their insurance costs straight up out of the taxpayer titty. People on the government payroll who were already able to pay for some semblance of what they're now being given as charity. Awesome.
Good try at dodging the argument, though. You partisan types are pretty famously good at that shit.
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